Gaudryceras kayei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaudrycerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Gaudryceras kayei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
25 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
9 formations
- Miria Formation10
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group4
- Ragged Valley Shale Formation · Asuncion Group3
- Valudavur Formation1
- St Lucia Formation1
- Taylor Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Gaudryceras kayei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gaudryceras kayei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gaudryceras kayei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Pseudophyllites indra13 sites
- Gunnarites kalika11 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides10 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya10 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum10 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus9 sites
- Kitchinites spathi9 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum8 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus8 sites
- Maorites densicostatus8 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum6 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis6 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus6 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis5 sites
- Eubaculites simplex4 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis4 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni4 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus4 sites
- Baculites lomaensis3 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati3 sites
- Didymoceras vancouverensis3 sites
- Epigoniceras epigonum3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum3 sites
- Gunnarites raggatti3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Gaudryceras kayei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
8 references- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia12
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast6
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III2
- Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea1
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan1
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae1
- Cretaceous ammonites from Texas and northern Mexico1
- Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe1
Each of the 25 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gaudryceras kayei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gaudryceras kayei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gaudryceras kayei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGaudryceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1846)